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    If rule-following is constitutively open-ended and commun... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Sign chains tend towards a definite but idealized end rather than progressing ad infinitum.

    If rule-following is constitutively open-ended and community-dependent, the regulative ideal of a complete, doubt-proof interpretation has no coherent stopping condition.

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    • 1.Community interpretation is always revisable by future participants, making any stopping point provisional rather than final.
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    • 2.Rules lack intrinsic content; their meaning emerges through use, which is inherently extended across time and context.
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    • 3.Doubt-proof interpretation assumes closure when meaning-making is fundamentally an ongoing social practice without terminal states.
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    • 1.Open-endedness of interpretation doesn't entail the ideal itself is incoherent; ideals can be regulative without being attainable.
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    • 2.Communities do establish pragmatic stopping conditions through consensus and institutional authority, even if theoretically revisable.
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    • 3.Confusing the underdetermination of rules with absence of stopping conditions equivocates 'indeterminate' with 'having no determinable endpoints.'
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